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It's an interesting irony that as Ziggy Marley's singing voice ages and becomes more and more similar to that of his late father, the music he makes gets more and more distant from the reggae mainstream. And on his first album without the Melody Makers, his explorations go even further afield, leading him to spend far more time with hip-hop beats and spare rock & roll than one-drop reggae grooves. This is all to the good, or would be, if Marley showed that he can craft melodies and lyrics as well on his own as he did with his band. Unfortunately, he finds himself melodically adrift on Dragonfly. There are plenty of great beats and well-crafted instrumental textures (thanks in part to such high-profile guest musicians as Flea, David Lindley, and DJ Chris Kilmore), but the album offers not a single memorable tune, though "Looking," with its lilting highlife guitars, comes close. Lyrically, the album is an embarrassment. Almost every song is an exercise in bathetic platitude: "Do what you feel and don't you fool yourself," "I can't make you happy unless I am," "I've got to be true to myself," etc., and those lines are all from a single song. On the topic of conflict in the Middle East, he opines that "the only answer is to live as one," which Israelis and Palestinians alike may be forgiven for regarding as less than entirely helpful; the same goes for his observation that "what divides us is an illusion." Faced with this sort of nonsense, it's hard not to wonder why so many pop singers feel the need to comment on political and social issues about which they obviously know little or nothing. It's a question that would have been easier to avoid if the music were more compelling.
© Rick Anderson /TiVo
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Ziggy Marley, Vocal - Ziggy Marley, Producer - Mikey Bennett, Arranger - Richard Bravo, Percussion - Scott Litt, Background Vocal - Ross Hogarth, Producer - Ross Hogarth, Recording Engineer - Ross Hogarth, Mixing Engineer - Luis Conte, Percussion - John Cranfield, 2nd Engineer - David Marley, Composer - David Marley, Lyricist - Damien Shannon, 2nd Engineer - Dan Warner, Guitar
(P) 2003 BMG Music
Luis Conte, Percussion - Erica Stewart, Background Vocal - Greg Smith, Horns - Nick Lane, Horns - Damien Shannon, 2nd Engineer - David Marley, Composer - David Marley, Lyricist - Sharon Marley, Background Vocal - Lon Price, Horns - Reggie McBride, Bass - Ziggy Marley, Vocal - Ziggy Marley, Producer - James Harrah, Guitar - Mikey Bennett, Arranger - Lee R. Thornburg, Horns - Rami Jaffee, Organ - David Lindley, Guitar - Ross Hogarth, Producer - Ross Hogarth, Recording Engineer - Ross Hogarth, Mixing Engineer - Brian MacLeod, Drums - John Cranfield, 2nd Engineer
(P) 2003 BMG Music
Ziggy Marley, Vocal - Ziggy Marley, Producer - Mikey Bennett, Arranger - George Panagopoulos, Background Vocal - Steve Bigas, Guitar - Brian MacLeod, Drums - Rami Jaffee, Keyboards - Eric Lynn, Keyboards - Ross Hogarth, Producer - Ross Hogarth, Recording Engineer - Ross Hogarth, Mixing Engineer - Luis Conte, Percussion - Reggie McBride, Bass - David Lindley, Guitar - John Cranfield, 2nd Engineer - David Marley, Composer - David Marley, Lyricist - Damien Shannon, 2nd Engineer - Blues Saraceno, Guitar
(P) 2003 BMG Music
Ziggy Marley, Vocal - Ziggy Marley, Producer - Mikey Bennett, Arranger - David Ralicke, Saxophone - Steve Jordan, Drums - Sharon Marley, Background Vocal - Rami Jaffee, Acordeon - Ross Hogarth, Producer - Ross Hogarth, Recording Engineer - Ross Hogarth, Mixing Engineer - Luis Conte, Percussion - John Cranfield, 2nd Engineer - David Marley, Composer - David Marley, Lyricist - Paul Bushnell, Bass - Damien Shannon, 2nd Engineer - Marc Moreau, Percussion - Erica Stewart, Background Vocal
(P) 2003 BMG Music
Ziggy Marley, Vocal - Ziggy Marley, Producer - Ziggy Marley, Mixing Engineer - Mikey Bennett, Arranger - Scott Litt, Producer - Scott Litt, Recording Engineer - Scott Litt, Engineer - Gary Corbett, Guitar - Seth Waldman, 2nd Engineer - Keith Grant, 2nd Engineer - Wes Seidman, 2nd Engineer - David Marley, Composer - David Marley, Lyricist - Robert Reid, 2nd Engineer - Mike Butler, 2nd Engineer - Marc Moreau, Drums - Marc Moreau, Recording Engineer - Marc Moreau, Engineer - Marc Moreau, Mixing Engineer - Eric Weaver, 2nd Engineer - JD Andrew, 2nd Engineer
(P) 2003 BMG Music
Ziggy Marley, Vocal - Ziggy Marley, Producer - Mikey Bennett, Arranger - Steve Bigas, Guitar - Brian MacLeod, Drums - Rami Jaffee, Keyboards - Luis Conte, Percussion - Ross Hogarth, Producer - Ross Hogarth, Recording Engineer - Ross Hogarth, Guitar - Ross Hogarth, Mixing Engineer - David Lindley, Guitar - John Cranfield, 2nd Engineer - James Harrah, Guitar - David Marley, Composer - David Marley, Lyricist - Paul Bushnell, Bass - Damien Shannon, 2nd Engineer - Blues Saraceno, Guitar
(P) 2003 BMG Music
Seth Waldman, 2nd Engineer - Erica Stewart, Background Vocal - Angel Roché, Jr., Percussion - Marc Moreau, Recording Engineer - Marc Moreau, Engineer - Marc Moreau, Mixing Engineer - Ron Blake, Horns - David Marley, Composer - David Marley, Lyricist - Sharon Marley, Background Vocal - Steve Jordan, Drums - Scott Litt, Producer - Scott Litt, Recording Engineer - Scott Litt, Engineer - Ziggy Marley, Vocal - Ziggy Marley, Producer - Ziggy Marley, Mixing Engineer - Flea, Bass - Mikey Bennett, Arranger - Eric Weaver, 2nd Engineer - Wes Seidman, 2nd Engineer - David Ralicke, Horns - John Frusciante, Guitar - Keith Grant, 2nd Engineer - Steve Baxter, Horns - Robert Reid, 2nd Engineer - Chris Kilmore, Scratches - JD Andrew, 2nd Engineer - Mike Butler, 2nd Engineer - Tyrone Downie, Keyboards
(P) 2003 BMG Music
Seth Waldman, 2nd Engineer - Erica Stewart, Background Vocal - Angel Roché, Jr., Percussion - Marc Moreau, Synthesizer - Marc Moreau, Recording Engineer - Marc Moreau, Engineer - Marc Moreau, Mixing Engineer - Ron Blake, Horns - David Marley, Composer - David Marley, Lyricist - Sharon Marley, Background Vocal - Steve Jordan, Drums - Roger Joseph Manning Jr., Piano - Scott Litt, Producer - Scott Litt, Recording Engineer - Scott Litt, Engineer - Ziggy Marley, Vocal - Ziggy Marley, Producer - Ziggy Marley, Mixing Engineer - Flea, Bass - Mikey Bennett, Arranger - Eric Weaver, 2nd Engineer - Wes Seidman, 2nd Engineer - David Ralicke, Horns - Keith Grant, 2nd Engineer - Steve Baxter, Horns - Robert Reid, 2nd Engineer - JD Andrew, 2nd Engineer - Mike Butler, 2nd Engineer
(P) 2003 BMG Music
Ziggy Marley, Vocal - Ziggy Marley, Producer - Ziggy Marley, Mixing Engineer - Mikey Bennett, Arranger - Scott Litt, Producer - Scott Litt, Recording Engineer - Scott Litt, Engineer - Steve Jordan, Drums - Sharon Marley, Background Vocal - Seth Waldman, 2nd Engineer - Keith Grant, 2nd Engineer - Wes Seidman, 2nd Engineer - David Marley, Composer - David Marley, Lyricist - Cedella Marley, Vocal - Robert Reid, 2nd Engineer - Mike Butler, 2nd Engineer - Tyrone Downie, Piano - Marc Moreau, Guitar - Marc Moreau, Recording Engineer - Marc Moreau, Engineer - Marc Moreau, Mixing Engineer - Erica Stewart, Background Vocal - Eric Weaver, 2nd Engineer - JD Andrew, 2nd Engineer
(P) 2003 BMG Music
Ziggy Marley, Vocal - Ziggy Marley, Producer - Ziggy Marley, Mixing Engineer - Stephen Ferrone, Drums - Mikey Bennett, Arranger - Scott Litt, Producer - Scott Litt, Recording Engineer - Scott Litt, Engineer - Tony Visconti, Arranger - Sharon Marley, Background Vocal - Seth Waldman, 2nd Engineer - Keith Grant, 2nd Engineer - Wes Seidman, 2nd Engineer - David Marley, Composer - David Marley, Lyricist - Robert Reid, 2nd Engineer - Mike Butler, 2nd Engineer - Erica Newell, Background Vocal - Marc Moreau, Recording Engineer - Marc Moreau, Engineer - Marc Moreau, Mixing Engineer - The Scorchio Quaret, Strings - Eric Weaver, 2nd Engineer - JD Andrew, 2nd Engineer
(P) 2003 BMG Music
Seth Waldman, 2nd Engineer - Marc Moreau, Guitar - Marc Moreau, Recording Engineer - Marc Moreau, Engineer - Marc Moreau, Mixing Engineer - Marc Moreau, Synthesizer - Stephen Ferrone, Drums - David Marley, Composer - David Marley, Lyricist - Scott Litt, Producer - Scott Litt, Recording Engineer - Scott Litt, Engineer - Ziggy Marley, Vocal - Ziggy Marley, Producer - Ziggy Marley, Mixing Engineer - Mikey Bennett, Arranger - Eric Weaver, 2nd Engineer - Wes Seidman, 2nd Engineer - Zuri Marley, Background Vocal - Keith Grant, 2nd Engineer - Earl Smith, Guitar - Robert Reid, 2nd Engineer - JD Andrew, 2nd Engineer - Mike Butler, 2nd Engineer - Justice Marley, Background Vocal - Tyrone Downie, Synthesizer - Daniel Marley, Background Vocal
(P) 2003 BMG Music
Albumbeschreibung
It's an interesting irony that as Ziggy Marley's singing voice ages and becomes more and more similar to that of his late father, the music he makes gets more and more distant from the reggae mainstream. And on his first album without the Melody Makers, his explorations go even further afield, leading him to spend far more time with hip-hop beats and spare rock & roll than one-drop reggae grooves. This is all to the good, or would be, if Marley showed that he can craft melodies and lyrics as well on his own as he did with his band. Unfortunately, he finds himself melodically adrift on Dragonfly. There are plenty of great beats and well-crafted instrumental textures (thanks in part to such high-profile guest musicians as Flea, David Lindley, and DJ Chris Kilmore), but the album offers not a single memorable tune, though "Looking," with its lilting highlife guitars, comes close. Lyrically, the album is an embarrassment. Almost every song is an exercise in bathetic platitude: "Do what you feel and don't you fool yourself," "I can't make you happy unless I am," "I've got to be true to myself," etc., and those lines are all from a single song. On the topic of conflict in the Middle East, he opines that "the only answer is to live as one," which Israelis and Palestinians alike may be forgiven for regarding as less than entirely helpful; the same goes for his observation that "what divides us is an illusion." Faced with this sort of nonsense, it's hard not to wonder why so many pop singers feel the need to comment on political and social issues about which they obviously know little or nothing. It's a question that would have been easier to avoid if the music were more compelling.
© Rick Anderson /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 11 track(s)
- Total length: 00:46:01
- Main artists: Ziggy Marley
- Composer: David Marley
- Label: Private Music
- Genre: Reggae
(P) 2003 BMG
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